Chef filmed naked visitors at his Tumbarumba home, court told

A chef who installed a hidden camera to film naked women and a man staying at his home in south-eastern NSW has been ordered to perform 350 hours community service work.

Qi Jia Wu rented out two rooms to Taiwanese nationals, a man and three women, who were involved in the berry harvest at Tumbarumba and had arrived on December 15 last year, Albury Local Court heard yesterday.

He got abundant footage of the overseas travellers undressing, showering and visiting the toilet in a shared bathroom-laundry, the Border Mail reports.

But his covert perving was discovered when the male visitor borrowed Wu’s computer and found an item titled “new file”.

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He played the file, which showed the four being secretly filmed in the bathroom.

The man checked the room and found a clock-radio attached to the bathroom sink and a closer look revealed a pin-hole video camera.

“That is a very large number of [community service] hours, but these are serious matters,” magistrate Tony Murray told Wu .

“This behaviour is unacceptable.

“People are entitled to their privacy.”

Wu, 37, appeared for sentencing on four counts of filming a person in a private act without consent and installing a device to observe or film someone.

Defence solicitor Andrea MacDonald said Wu was estranged from his family, who still live in Tumbarumba, and had relocated to Gundagai.

Wu's footage was put on a USB file and the group took it to police at Tumbarumba on January 10.